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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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“Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism” by Anthony McIntyre: a review
This was a book that I first reviewed at the same time as “Unionism Decayed” back in 2008. Like Vance’s work, it is the author’s portrayal of a defeated political movement or ideal and as a Unionist it was instructional to read an interpretation of the immediate post-Agreement period from the other side of the fence. [...] read our review » -
Risk of going beyond either/or…
This is article was first published in Fortnight magazine back in February 2003. Chris Farrington is now a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Although the circumstances it describes has changed radically and [...] read our review »
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 16 June 2010 at 11:20 am
Only joking. Excellent result from Saville. I just love winding you sanctimonious windbag up. I hope the families now have the peace they deserve. A truth commission is needed to give IRA/UVF victims a feeling of closure too otherwise this sore will run on
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 16 June 2010 at 11:17 am
14 dead UK terrorists ,Gregory Franklin. Spell your name correctly please. Every word of Irish is a bullet against the British as the great democrat Danny Morrison said. Why do you disbelieve the soldiers but not the families?
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 16 June 2010 at 11:12 am
How articulate of you. I have the right not to believe the Saville whitewash. We live in times that would have made Lord Halifax salivate ie giving into terrorists. The 14 dead terrorists were killed because they threatened the lives of the soldiers. The soldiers testimony plays this out but was rejected because the Romanist Tony Blair told Saville what the outcome should be. The past 12 years were a pantomime.
There will never be a grubby Provo inbred Irish takeover off this part of Britain.
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 15 June 2010 at 6:13 pm
What truth was being sought? The families of those killed have aleady made up their minds as to what the ‘truth’ already was regardless of any inquiry. The Saville inquiry only served the function of humiliating the British state, not to seek the truth.
There was an inquiry into this already. It was called the Widgery inquiry. The truth was spelt out there but nationalists rejected it because it’s conclusions didn’t agree with their own subjective view of the ‘truth’
we seem to be living in times where we hold repeat inquiries until the ‘right’ answer is reached. It’s a bit like the EU’s idea of democracy- keep forcing an errant country to hold a referendum until they get a yes vote.
This report was not about seeking the truth but to rub the nose of the British in the brown stuff. By implication, this rubs the noses of the British people of NI in it too. The Irish are known for being sentimental ‘my mammy’ kind of people. We didn’t plant this island enough
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 15 June 2010 at 5:14 pm
Would that be the same stone under which the IRA live? Why was the IRA there? Why the McGuinness sub machine gun? The IRA murderers were jailed for murder. The Paras shot the protestirs CID they were under fire. Why did Saville dismiss all the soldiers testimony?the IRA are free now. I hope the Paras are exonarated under the Good Friday agreement
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Comment on Bloody Sunday Live blog…
on 15 June 2010 at 4:23 pm
If you send the army to deal with an overhanging tree over your neighbours garden, there will be blood. This enquiry’s conclusion is inevitable as it is politically expedient. As for the nonsense peddled about the impossibility of having an inquiry into terrorism, utter hogwash. All kinds of inquiries are held into all kinds of tragedies. Bloody Sunday was engineered by the IRA but dare that be ever mentioned.
As for the people of Derry, what will they have to whinge about now? I know, funds for post inquiry trauma syndrome treatment no doubt.
Again, what we see is what happens when terrorism wins. It pollutes everything in the body and spirit of the machinery of the state.
Another humiliation for IRA victims who will always remain uncool and unsung because northern prods don’t make for cool neared revolutionaries or posters.
A disgraceful inevitable day.
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Comment on Shortcut to unionist unity?
on 16 May 2010 at 11:49 am
anecdote time again but are you sure most RCs are leftwing? I worked for a man who was subsequently convicted for weapons possession (PIRA). He was an admirer of Thatchers economic policies. The RoI must be alone (excepting USA) to never have been ruled by a leftist party.
if any members of UUP/DUP are on this forum, I do wish to engage u with reasoned debate on the above
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Comment on Shortcut to unionist unity?
on 16 May 2010 at 8:14 am
I too found the Celtic fringe parties narrowminded in their insistence that Wales/Ni/Scotland should be immune from political realities.why should England shoulder the sole burden of impending cuts?
If they do, this will stoke up English nationalism and endanger the union. Also it shows how plitically and philosophically bankrupt the DUP are when the say they don’t care who occupies No10
the DUP are not pro British, their illiberality and lack of tolerance shows this. They are just a narrow little Ulsterists who behave like separated wife who demands the same alimony from hubby even though his income dropped as opposed to am understanding partner, willing to share the tribulations to come
can any unionist comment on my suggestions above? Am I a lone voice here?
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Comment on Shortcut to unionist unity?
on 16 May 2010 at 8:05 am
Billi Pilgrim et al unless we all work as statiticians in YouGov, it is valid for any if us to make comments based on personal observation, and anecdotal evidence. I have had conversaryions with many RC friends of mine. Off the 24 of them all voted SDLP or SF except for 3 who didn’t vote. Off the 24, 14 were happy with the union and prefer to see normal UK politics here. Why did they vote SDLP/SF then? Because off tribalism. They didn’t vote unionist as they have a history of sectarianism, denegrating RCism and being illiberal. It’s the unionist political parties we dislike, not unionism per se
I know republicans find this risible but political subtlety and sophistication and not seeing the world in black and white is not their strong suit.
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Comment on Reg Empey to step down from leadership
on 15 May 2010 at 5:47 pm
Whatever one may think of the Tories, we have to give credit for Reg’s attempt at bringing a semblance of normal politics to NI albeit in a very cackhanded fashion.
The disgraceful way that two talented prospective parliamentary candidates from the RC community were ditched meant that I didn’t vote for them. I would have done but they have to show/reconstitute themselves as secular and pluralist unionists.
Let’s put it like this, if all unionists were like Lady Herman and Nick Clegg (yes, he believes in the Union), Julia Goldsworthy, Trevor Ringland, Mike Nesbitt etc, then I would have absolutely no problem with majority rule as such politicians I have listed are not orangists or tub thumpers.
These and their ilk are the kind of unionists that are needed, not the grey-orangistas like McNarry etc. Put them to seed. They endanger the union actually as their presence contains the stink of decades of sectarianism. Clear them out and bring in the sunshine unionists and create a brand new pluralist, multicultural unionism that evreyone in NI can belong to and support
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